Here’s an all-purpose tool for you. It works as an exercise. It works as a character sketch before beginning a project. It works to break writer’s block. It’s just plain fun. Take a character or a setting or a situation. It can be something you’re…

Sounds like a sequel to that Morrie book, doesn’t it? But it isn’t. It’s me getting all down wit’ da Echelon forum and the Kindleboards forum. The plural of forum is fora, did you know that? Well, now you know. Echelon publisher Karen Syed just…

I finally bit the bullet and joined the Kindleboards. Fora scare me spitless, and it’s not just because the late great Bob Iles and I got kicked off one. I can’t figure out how to know if somebody has posted something interesting without reading a…